WDR engagement report
@WDRaktuell - 472K followers on X
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,792 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.4K times each, and 0.402% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 540 interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chatgpt, #werbung.
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #chatgpt, #werbung.
Compared with accounts its own size
WDR's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 29% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.007%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Apr 10, 202516x their median
Seit dem 7. April 2025 deaktivieren wir bei jedem unserer Posts die Kommentarfunktion. Warum wir das tun👇 https://t.co/O59zncG2kd
- Aug 20, 202613x their median
Wachsende Gewalt und Radikalisierung von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund: Davor warnt Wolfgang Büscher, Sprecher des Hilfswerks "Die Arche", in der WDR-Sendung "Aktuelle Stunde". Das liege vor allem an schlechter Integration. https://t.co/GmXAc0zLFn https://t.co/520QYLtyaw
- Aug 22, 20267.6x their median
Kanzler Merz besucht heute das Waldbrandgebiet in Hürtgenwald - zwei Tage nach vollständiger Löschung. Die Opposition wirft ihm Untätigkeit vor, weil er den Urlaub nicht unterbrochen hat. Timo Pleuß von der Feuerwehr Hürtgenwald schaut anders aufs Thema. https://t.co/qf7wdx4W1h https://t.co/XHjQWICmls
- Aug 22, 20264.5x their median
Mit Buhrufen und Pfiffen ist Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) am Samstag in Hürtgenwald-Gey empfangen worden. Merz reagierte gelassen: Er lasse sich von denen, die herumschreien, nicht beeindrucken. https://t.co/XIo6Hzw5oT
- Aug 27, 20264.4x their median
Bilder eines Fallschirmspringers sollen den Brandausbruch im Hohen Venn zeigen. https://t.co/lHMtllicG1 https://t.co/JWGM5cbNAz
- Aug 27, 20264.2x their median
In Dortmund hat ein Autofahrer auf der Flucht vor der Polizei einen Zivilpolizisten angefahren und verletzt. https://t.co/8f6vDjhvYH https://t.co/27MrcpRYJS
- Aug 25, 20263.6x their median
Neue Vorwürfe gegen das Kölner Ausländeramt: Auf einer Liste ausreisepflichtiger Migranten, die zwei Jahre nicht bearbeitet worden sein soll, stehen mehr als 150 mutmaßliche Straftäter. https://t.co/IvUc88lntZ
- Aug 21, 20262.9x their median
In Voerde am Niederrhein sind drei Gebäude eines stillgelegten Kohlekraftwerks gesprengt worden. https://t.co/dfkFMT4M0X https://t.co/Z5UFhVWsTz
- Aug 21, 20262.8x their median
Einsatzleiter Philipp Krüger von der Feuerwehr Monschau ist "unwahrscheinlich stolz", was seine Kameraden in den vergangenen Tagen geleistet haben. https://t.co/UsJGxa57Oc https://t.co/RlFmOR2vRA
- Aug 24, 20262.1x their median
Menschen im Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein dürfen ab heute ihre Blumen nicht mehr mit Trinkwasser gießen. Solch ein Verbot ist bislang einzigartig in NRW. Ob und wie knapp das Trinkwasser wird, hänge davon ab, woher eine Region es bezieht, sagte Mark Braun in der "Aktuellen Stunde". https://t.co/LumEuPiJnX
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,792 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.4K times each, and 0.402% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 540 interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chatgpt, #werbung.
- What is WDR's engagement rate on X?
- WDR (@WDRaktuell) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 471,630 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @WDRaktuell have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @WDRaktuell post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.